The Federal Trade Commission and the DOJ’s Antitrust Division have launched a joint public inquiry into the effectiveness of the Premerger Notification and Report Form, a notable step that signals possible changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino merger filing process. Although this is not a challenge to any one transaction, it is the kind of regulatory move that can reshape day-to-day antitrust…
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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s docket entry in Entegris, Inc., PGR2026-00037, marks the start of a post-grant review proceeding that practitioners should watch closely. Although a newly filed PTAB matter does not yet provide a final merits ruling, the case is significant because post-grant review remains one of the most powerful mechanisms for attacking recently issued patents on…
Continue Reading PTAB Institutes Post-Grant Review in Entegris, Signaling Broad Scrutiny of Early Patent Claims

Today’s legal news cycle reflects a familiar but increasingly important reality for legal departments and litigators: the most consequential developments are often the ones confirmed early through official releases, agency statements, and court-facing reporting, even before a fuller factual record emerges.

As of Tuesday, April 7, 2026, the most significant verified U.S. legal developments appear to center on matters with…
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The U.S. Supreme Court remains at the center of some of the most consequential constitutional disputes carried over from the Trump era, with the pending birthright-citizenship fight standing out as one of the term’s most closely watched matters. Although there was no new merits ruling today, the case continues to command attention because of what it could mean for the…
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Are courts the next frontier for legal AI? Shlomo Klapper, founder and CEO of the AI-driven judicial case-preparation platofrm Learned Hand, believes they are. A former litigator at Quinn Emanuel and law clerk for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Klapper is building what he calls a “reasoning engine” for judges — AI tools designed to help…
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In my time as a technologist and futurist, I’ve seen plenty of disruptions. In the past that’s code for a slightly faster spreadsheet. But today, we are talking about a shift that feels less like a software update and more like a biological evolution of the enterprise.

We’ve moved past the era where AI was just a digital highlighter, flagging…
Continue Reading The Agentic Evolution: Autonomous Finance is Here with Anant Kale

Okta, Inc. has launched a new Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceeding, IPR2026-00327, filed on April 6, 2026. The petition places another technology-focused patent dispute before the PTAB and is one that in-house IP teams, patent litigators, and counsel following the identity and access management space will want to watch closely.At this early stage, the publicly available docket identifies …
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A federal judge in Manhattan has granted preliminary approval to a proposed $72.5 million settlement resolving claims that Bank of America facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking and abuse. The deal would cover up to 75 women who alleged the bank enabled Epstein’s conduct by continuing to provide banking services despite purported red flags surrounding his activities.

The ruling is significant…
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Josef, the Australia-based legal automation platform, has launched a new capability it is calling the Rapid Ingestion Engine, which uses AI to convert unstructured business inputs — such as email threads, meeting notes and term sheets — into the structured data that legal workflow templates require.
The idea, according to Josef CEO and cofounder Tom Dreyfus, is that…
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PracticePanther, the cloud-based legal practice management platform that is part of Paradigm’s suite of legal software products, today launched PantherAccounting Plus, a comprehensive trust and operating accounting feature set built natively into its platform.
The new capability enables law firms to manage the full lifecycle of their financial operations – from client retainers to month-end reconciliations to year-end tax…
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In the latest episode of Inside View, Caroline Hill, editor of Legal IT Insider, speaks with Stewart Crane, global IT director at Withers, about the UK top 50 law firm’s IT strategy and how it is attempting to democratise innovation across the firm. Crane, who joined Withers in 2018 after senior technology roles in insurance and…
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Founded in 2024 in New York, Chamelio is a legal intelligence platform designed specifically for in‑house legal teams grappling with high volumes of contracts, legal requests and fragmented institutional knowledge. The company aims to help legal departments work faster and more accurately by turning unstructured legal content — from contracts and templates to policies and negotiation history — into structured, …
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